To kriechen before someone is to act sycophantically toward him.
In hockey and soccer, for example, you are told to hate your opponent and act brutal toward him.
Claire acts dismissively toward him, and, in a pivotal scene near the end, she predicts that at school on Monday morning, even though the group has bonded, things will return, socially, to the status quo.
If you handled the breakup poorly, have acted bad toward him since the breakup, have been rude, critical, argued about his choice to break up in the first place, or stalked him.
It asks us to recognize all that we share with animals and then demands that we act toward them in a most unanimalistic way.
Irene didn't want to go back to school then, because her sister had sort of protected her from the way the other kids would act toward them.
What we believe about a person -- or a group of people -- translates into how we act toward them.
(2) The ḥāl of qurb ("nearness") is a state that enables the Ṣūfī to become unconscious of his own acts and to see God's acts and bounties toward him.
But most damningly, Whymper said that as the three survivors huddled miserably through a long night, the Taugwalders acted so menacingly toward him that he kept his back to the rock and his ax at the ready.
Basically, and to put it less elegantly than Jesus, if your enemy behaves like a jerk toward you, there's no reason you have to act like a jerk toward him.
